New anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2021 An edited collection of 20 of the year’s best short story series john joseph adams I was particularly impressed by the story of Ted Kosmatka “The beast is near” This sheds new light on the artificial intelligence uprising.
“This is awesome,” Adams said in episode 492 of the series. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “It pushed all the wonderful feeling buttons; it had all this cool character stuff in it. It felt huge. There was a lot going on in the story. I just loved it.”
This story is repeated Von Neumann-Wigner The interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests a future in which advanced artificial intelligence cannot function without human presence.Guest Editor Veronica Ross,author divergent, found this story very creepy. “I got to the part where the machine uses a person attached to itself to keep time moving, and I was like, ‘This is so offensive. I love it,'” she said. “It’s stuck with me ever since I read it. I can’t stop thinking about it.”
fantasy writer Johna Delgado Agreed, “Beasts Next Door” is a disturbing story. “It’s such a perfectly realized and chilling premise that it’s the opposite of what we imagine artificial intelligence can do for us,” she said. “There is a passage [the AIs] “Human Taillight is being created – a human in a jar with one eye and a clump of flesh. It’s such incredibly scary writing. I’m a huge fan of it.”
Currently, “Beasts Adjacent” only exists as a stand-alone short story, but Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Cotley Wondering if this story could be expanded upon. “I just think it’s a really interesting premise – that these artificial intelligences only work if humans observe them,” he said. “I feel like there’s probably a lot of other stories you could get away with from this.”
Listen to the full interview with John Joseph Adams, Veronica Ross, and John Cardelgado in Episode 492 of John Joseph Adams Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above) and check out some of the key points from the discussion below.
Yohanca Delgado horn workshop:
“At Clarion, I skipped a week and was rocking back and forth in my room in a panic because I was like, ‘I have to write something. I had this idea, but I couldn’t seem to write anything else, but I also felt —You know that feeling when you want to write something, but you’re not quite ready? Like, you don’t feel like you’re the writer you need to be to tackle it…and the timeline Clarion is relentless. I’ve already missed a week and I can’t miss another week. Me and Andy Duncan, he’s a great guy, and basically he’s like, “I don’t understand why you don’t just do this.” Sometimes you need to hear that. You need someone to shake you by the shoulders and tell you, ‘Just do it.’ ‘”
Yohanca Delgado tells her story “Our Language”:
“My family is from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. I didn’t know there were any monsters in Latin America or the Caribbean, so I started this research project to find them… watermelonpa Is it this woman – there are some stories that say it’s male too, but I’m more interested in the idea that it’s a woman – she’s very small and attractive with a wild side, her legs growing back. I Found this to be a very interesting monster. What is her power? What does this all mean? In researching this issue, I discovered that it is really rooted in the stories of indigenous and enslaved people. Because her real superpower is “the ability to escape. I think that ties in really well with some of the conversations about gender and gender oppression.”
John Joseph Adams on the epidemic:
“Most people who publish sci-fi/fantasy magazines don’t think of it as a job, but as a side hustle they’re doing. They have some other regular job to pay the bills. So maybe it’s because they save an hour of commuting time to commute to and from work every day, they have more time to work [magazines]To be honest, I had expected more closures and cessations of publication, since so many people were out of work once the pandemic hit and pretty much everyone needed to tighten their belts. So I was really surprised to see how resilient everyone was. Maybe part of it is that everyone is thinking, “People need this right now.” So it’s more important to hold on than close the door, because we need this to look forward to when we’re faced with all this terrible desolation in the real world. “
David Barr Kirtley on Meg Elison’s “The Pill”:
“One of the aspects of science fiction about this story, in a very good way, is that it doesn’t just come up with an idea and then stick to that static situation, it keeps complicating it and keeps introducing these new twists… which One thing about science fiction, people often say, it’s not the job of a science fiction writer to predict cars – anyone can predict cars. Your job is to predict the interstate highway system and suburbs, and look at the second-order effects of these technologies I Think this story works really well as a science fiction story in that it’s not just about “how does this new technology affect the protagonist?” – although it does touch on that – but also “how does it affect” Wider society? ‘”